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"The Science and Art of Model and Object Drawing" constitutes a fantastic introduction to drawing from real life objects and models, designed for the self-instruction of teachers and art students. It covers both theory and practice, offering the reader simple instructions and explanations coupled with simple, handy diagrams. Highly recommended for all with an interest in improving their drawing skills. Contents include: "Terms and Definitions", "Of...
2982) How to Draw Anything Anytime: A Beginner's Guide to Cute and Easy Doodles (Over 1,000 Illustrations)
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Author and artist Kamo is back with her ever-popular doodles!
Cute, funny and simple drawings-alongside step-by-step instructions-are sure to inspire readers of all ages to sit down and start doodling. Begin with a line or squiggle, and then turn it into a face, animal or anything else that your imagination conjures up. The point is just to draw-anytime, anywhere, anything-and, most of all, to have fun while you are doing it!
With more than 1000...
2983) Toulouse-Lautrec
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Lautrec studied with two of the most admired academic painters of the day, Léon Bonnat and Fernand Cormon. Lautrec's time in the studios of Bonnat and Cormon had the advantage of introducing him to the nude as a subject. At that time life-drawing of the nude was the basis of all academic art training in nineteenth-century Paris. While still a student, Lautrec began to explore Parisian nightlife, which was to provide him with his greatest inspiration,...
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This book makes it easy to create and admire wonderful Japanese-style paintings and portraits!
Modern Japanese-style paintings are recognizable by their restrained use of three-dimensionality and perspective, reliance upon expressive lines, and the bold use of color to direct the viewer's eye. There are other ways that artists imbue their work with Japanese-inspired attributes, including through the skillful use of shape, texture, and facial expression.
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Le musée d'Art moderne de la Ville de Paris a poursuivi par une grande rétrospective consacrée au fauvisme l'ambitieuse politique d'expositions qu'il consacre depuis plusieurs années, à l'initiative de sa directrice, Suzanne Pagé, à l'histoire de l'art du XXe siècle...
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Create simple seasonal and holiday doodles using multicolored pens! Want to draw a jack-o'-lantern with a toothy smile? How about a silly Santa out cruising in his sleigh? How to Doodle Year-Round helps you create these sweet and sensational designs-no previous artistic training required! Kamo provides hundreds of examples, unlocking the simple secrets to drawing freewheeling, lively and amusing doodles. Unlike fine-art or manga, there are no rules...
2987) Acrylics
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Learn to Paint Acrylics is just one of the top-selling titles in the excellent Collins Learn to Paint series. The book contains thorough yet accessible instruction and stunning artwork by popular TV artist, Alwyn Crawshaw. Alwyn Crawshaw demonstrates all the basic methods of painting in this exciting, modern medium of acrylics. Acrylics can be used like oil paint (but without the long drying time), or watered down to look like watercolour - bringing...
2988) Munch
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Edvard Munch (Løten, 1863 – Ekely, 1944).Munch peut être considéré comme le pionnier de l'expressionnisme dans la peinture moderne. Il a bénéficié tôt de la réputation d'un artiste d'une nouvelle époque marquante en Allemagne et en Europe centrale, et aujourd'hui son oeuvre et son statut sont depuis longtemps reconnus dans toute l'Europe et le monde. Les oeuvres de Munch les plus connues sont celles des années 1890, notamment Le Cri....
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Sketching is a wonderful pastime and a great way to build up your drawing skills. You can use it to record your experiences and subjects that interest you, just by jotting down an impression in your sketchbook. In this inspiring manual, artist Vivienne Coleman guides you through a variety of subjects in easy, confidence-building steps. She shows you how to do complete drawings in just a few minutes, so that you can make sketching part of your daily...
2990) Kirchner
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The self-appointed "leader" of the artists' group Die Brücke (Bridge), founded in Dresden in 1905, Ernst Ludwig Kirchner was a key figure in the early development of German Expressionism. His first works show the influence of Impressionism, Post-impressionism and Jugendstil, but by about 1909, Kirchner was painting in a distinctive, expressive manner with bold, loose brushwork, vibrant and non-naturalistic colours and heightened gestures. He worked...
2991) Kirchner
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Ernst Ludwig Kirchner (Aschaffenburg, 1880 – Frauenkirch, 1938) «Leader » autoproclamé du groupe d'artistes die Brücke (Pont), fondé à Dresde en 1905, Ernst Ludwig Kirchner, joua un rôle central dans les premiers développements de l'expressionnisme allemand (fig.186). Ses premières oeuvres révèlent l'influence de l'Impressionnisme, du postimpressionnisme et du Jugendstil, mais dès 1909, Kirchner peignait d'une manière distinctive et...
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In his works, Hopper poetically expressed the solitude of man confronted with the American way of life as it developed in the 1920s. Inspired by the movies and particularly by the various camera angles and attitudes of characters, his paintings expose the alienation of mass culture. Done in cold colours and inhabited by anonymous characters, Hopper's paintings also symbolically reflect the Great Depression. Through a series of different reproductions...
2993) Cassatt
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Mary was born in Pittsburgh. Her father was a banker of liberal educational ideas and the entire family appears to have been sympathetic to French culture. Mary was no more than five or six years old when she first saw Paris, and she was still in her teens when she decided to become a painter. She went to Italy, on to Antwerp, then to Rome, and finally returned to Paris where in 1874, she permanently settled. In 1872, Cassatt sent her first work to...
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Initiation à la calligraphie, du Moyen-ge à nos jours.
Savez-vous que vous pouvez transformer votre vie grâce à la belle écriture ?
Depuis les débuts de l'écriture, l'art de la calligraphie s'est invité dans la culture des peuples du monde entier. Chaque civilisation a trouvé ses lettres de noblesse dans la magie de la belle écriture, quelle que soit sa religion, pour honorer les Dieux.
La calligraphie est telle une respiration méditative,...
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Spark Your Creativity with Calligraphy
Lettering artist Phawnda Moore has been teaching calligraphy and design for 25 years. An award-winning author, she steps into beginning students' shoes to select content, address anticipated questions, and offer solutions to the unexpected yet inevitable problems that are encountered in hand lettering.
"Lettering from A to Z . . ." stands out from the crowd! It was written for all levels of experience and nourishes...
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Cute Things to Draw for Kawaii Art Creatives
This kawaii drawing book is essential for everyone looking to learn how to draw cute things! From the author of the bestseller The Drawing Book for Kids, with over 300,000 copies sold, this first book in a brand new series keeps you entertained while learning a new skill.
A collection of cheerful and cute things to draw step-by-step. Kawaii means cute in Japanese. Loved by all ages, this popular style...
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Mary Bonner: Impressions of a Printmaker is the definitive account of the life of an iconic Texas artist known for her delicate etchings and prints of the places and people that make South Texas unique. Mary Bonner begins with the artist's early years in San Antonio and continues through her awakening as an artist at the Woodstock colony in upstate New York in summer 1922 to her years in France under the instruction of master printmaker Édouard Henri...
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Pour la première fois en France, une rétrospective d'ensemble était consacrée, du 14 mars au 10 juillet 2005, par le musée d'Orsay à Paris, au néo-impressionnisme. Son titre, Le néo-impressionnisme: de Seurat à Paul Klee, en soulignait l'ambition. Il ne s'agissait pas simplement de...
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2999) Munch
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Edvard Munch, born in 1863, was Norway's most popular artist. His brooding and anguished paintings, based on personal grief and obsessions, were instrumental in the development of Expressionism. During his childhood, the death of his parents, his brother and sister, and the mental illness of another sister, were of great influence on his convulsed and tortuous art. In his works, Munch turned again and again to the memory of illness, death and grief....
3000) Munch
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Edvard Munch (Løten, 1863 – Ekely, 1944)Munch peut être considéré comme le pionnier de l'expressionnisme dans la peinture moderne. Il a bénéficié tôt de la réputation d'un artiste d'une nouvelle époque marquante en Allemagne et en Europe centrale, et aujourd'hui son oeuvre et son statut sont depuis longtemps reconnus dans toute l'Europe et le monde. Les oeuvres de Munch les plus connues sont celles des années 1890, notamment Le Cri. La...
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